Writing prompt: He had an hour to get home

Join in my daily writing prompt! I don’t promise to respond to them all myself, but will try my best! Here is my response to the latest prompt.

He had an hour to get home. If he didn’t make it …

Not pausing from his headlong flight through the dark and icy city streets, Jake scrabbled in his pocket for the hundredth time. Still there. The key, its golden chain coiled around it. He gulped a misty breath, and ran on.

Had the ice queen missed the key yet? From where it hung from her jewel-...